New blog: Rational Perspectives

[Ringu]

A group of BA, MA and PhD philosophy students started this blog a few days ago. http://rationalperspective.wordpress.com/

This is how they introduce their blog:

We are a group of students concerned with a variety of controversial philosophical, scientific, ethical, and religious issues. The title of our blog is meant to express a commitment to sober-minded, rational discussion. We assume the classical principles of logic and we uphold the stylistic virtues of clarity and precision. Although the issues we treat are wide-ranging, an ongoing theme in this blog is the articulation and defense of philosophical theism. We reject the new militant atheism, the “brights” movement, new age fluff, and moral and epistemological relativism.

It has a lot of interesting links to materials about:
* Anti-naturalism
* Existence of God
* Nature of God
* Philosophical theology
* Theistic philosophers

Please come check it out.

Btw I am not affiliated with this blog, but I know a couple of people who are contributors.

 

[Ringu]

“Ought Implies Can” Implies the Denial of Determinism

Check out this first entry about free will: http://rationalperspective.wordpress.com/

A quote:

Most people want to accept that moral obligation exists - that there are some actions we ought to perform and some actions we ought to refrain from performing. And we would like to think (and it seems quite natural to think) that if one ought to perform a certain action at a certain time, then one is able to perform it. But if determinism is true, then that’s false. There are actions one is morally obligated to perform that one is unable to perform. And there are actions one is morally obligated to refrain from performing that one must perform.